Birmingham state herald., October 27, 1895, Page 12, Image 12

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A TRIP TO THE TROPICS
Being Made'by a Birmingham
Young Man
ON A LUMBER-LADEN SHIP
The Beginning of the Voyage Is Interestingly
Described in a Letter to the
State Herald.
Island of St. Christopher, Sept. 29.—
When I started for Mobile with a view
of making a trip to the West Indies you
asked me to write to you occasionally, In
case I should make the voyage. When I
promised that I would do so I had no
idea that 1 would keep my promise, but
I find now that I must do something to
help pass away the time, and I know of
no better way than writing to you about
these beautiful islands. I see so many
curious and interesting things that are
so entirely new to me that I am bound
to tell somebody about them. I can't
stay bottled up any longer, so you may
as well make up your mind to submit to
this Infliction.
Life at sea, especially on" the Gulf of
Mexico, is delightful, simply grand, and
although it has been a month since I
left you. the time lias glided by so pleas
antly and swiftly that it seems but a few
days. Time on ship board passes more
rapidly than on land, there being so lit
tle to mark the days by. It is a lazy, in
dolent life, with
Nothing to do but sleep,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nowhere to go but out,
And nothing to be but good. 4
One must be possessed of
patience and have a faculty of
making occupation to thorough
ly enloy this life. I must be an
adept In the business for not a minute
has palled on my hands.
I don't blame sailors for never leaving
the sea. I am afraid that 1 will become
so fascinated with the life that 1 too will
never want to become a land lubber
again.
The first few days out from port I
was a little homesick, mingled with sea
sickness. I missed my morning paper
and missed the bustle and noises of the,
city, and missed my pieals, but I soon
got used to the new life, and now that I
am free from the dust, the noise and all
business cares, with nothing in particu
lar to think about, except the girl I left
behind, I would not swap places with the
president.
Tne nrst tew flays. i must coniess, were
anything but pleasant, as I had to un
dergo the agonies of seasickness. It Is
all right now to write about It, but If I
thought I would have to suffer another
attack I think I would walk home and re
main thgre forever. I will tell you all
about Itp but It is necessary to go back
and tell you all about how I happened to
make this voyage and describe the boat
in which it Is being made.
When I reached Mobile I began making
inquiries along the river front for a vessel
bound for the East Indies, I wasn’t par
ticular for what port. I was told that
there was a schooner bound for the
Windward islands loading lumber at one
of the sawmills above the city. I didn’t
know where the Windward islands were
and didn’t care much, just bo long as they
were some where in the West Indies and
in the balmy tropics.
I wended my way along the river front
until I found the vessel I was looking for.
She struck my fancy and I determined
tr try and secure passage on her. She
is a 240 ton, three-masted schooner, with
one of the Jolllest captains and best crew
that ever sailed the briny deep.
I called on her charterer, who proved
to be a distant relative, and told him that
I wanted to take a trip to the West In
dies. Imagine my surprise when he told
me that the trip would cost me nothing
if I would act as supercargo, and if the
trip proved profitable he would pay me
for my services. I was Just the fellow he
was looking for. I didn't know what a
supercargo was, but he explained that
he was merely an agent of the charterer,
who represented him in all matters per
taining to the cargo, but had nothing to
do with the management of the ship ex
cept in port. At sea he Is but a passen
ger with nothing to do. He stated that
the war in Cuba had crippled the trade
with that Island for the present, so he
thought of making a shipment to the
Windward Islands and wanted me to go
along and dispose of the cargo for him
either at Martinque, Dominica, Trinidad,
Barbadoes or St. Lucia. With the pro
ceeds I was to buy a return cargo of
cocoanuts and bananas.
You see. I didn’t do a thing but fall into
an easy berth. Instead of paying for my
passage I am getting paid for It and am
living like a lord. I will tell you present
ly how I live and eat and sleep. It is so
different from life ashore that It will in
terest you.
Everything was ready. I was comfor
tably quartered in the captain’s cabin
aft, ad we sailors eay; the lines were east
loose and down the bay we started in
tow of a tugboat, the dredged channel be
ing too nurrowr for a loaded vessel to at
tempt to sail through it.
Tnis cnannei is miny miivs lung anu 6e
feet deep., having been dug at a cost of
a few million dollars by the United Slates
government. The largest vessels can now
go up to the wharfs In Mobile, whereas
but a few years ago nothing but the
very smallest vessels could go up.
It took us five hours to make the trip to
the lower bay, and It being too late to
pass out over the dangerous outer bar
the vessel was anchored for the night.
At daylight next morning the anchors
were weighed, the sails set, and with a
fair breeze from the northwest we went
out of the bay, passing Fort Morgin,
Fort Gaines, Sand Island lighthouse and
the bell buoy at railroad speed.
We took no pilot, the captain being
thoroughly familiar with the channel.
I stood on deck watching the land re
cede from view, and to tell you the truth
I was wishing I had never left hom*
The schooner was loaded to the water's
edge with lumber, and what couldn't be
put inside of her was piled 3 feet high
on deck. She was so low In the water
that every wave looked like it was going
to wash over her. I had never seen so
much water before and I was a little
uneasy.
I,was still standing on deck, the land
having faded away, when the captain
came up the companionway wearing a
worried look. He wore other things, of
course, but the worried look overshadow
ed the rest. He said that a nor’wester
was coming and we would have some
ugly weather. I thought he warn hlufflng
uml trying to scare me. As I was al
ready badly scare.1 his remarks had no
weight with me; besides I didn’t know
what a nor'wester was. I know now. It
Is one of those blizzards that sweep over
Birmingham occasionally, only when It
strikes the gulf it amounts to two bliz
zards moulded into one.
The captain ordered the topsails clewed
up. the head sails taken in and the fore
sail lowered. We were running dead
before the wind, with the mizzen sail and
spanker winged out. I expect all that Is
Greek to you as It was to me at first.
Fortify the system against attacks of
Rheumatism by purifying the blood with
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
For the State Herald.
"IS BUILDING" AND "IS BEING BUILT.”
The State Herald expresses itself In
such good and forcible English, so ably
defends things old and things new, and
has such a wide Influence that I am sure
It will take no offense at my defending
a good old form of expression, one cov
ered with the rhyme of centuries, but one
condemned In last Sunday’s paper. In
an editorial note the following appears:
"The Mobile Register,holds that the
proper expression Is, 'The house Is build
ing,’ and not 'The house Is being built.’
Wrong again! What is the house build
ing? The house is doing nothing.”
Now. while It Is true that many a house,
whether containing a legislative body
or a private family, often does nothing,
or does something worse than nothing,
"the house is building" has long been a
grammatical truth.
Before I show this let me say that
good usage, the usage of the best writers
and speakers of our marvelous English
tongue, Is the supreme court of our lan
guage, the august tribunal from whose
decisions there is no appeal. I need not
cite in suport of the authority of usage
the line of good old Horace; for all your
classical readers know It by heart. We
sometimes hear expressions, well author
ized by the highest authority, censured
because they cannot be parsed "by my
grammar.” So much the worse is it for
"my grammar.” Language was made
before grammar, and it Is the business of
grammarians simply to record usage.
Expressions are born, live and die; but
"Is building" is one that has been long
with us and Is destined, I think, to have
Immortality. I know your printers will
cheerfully excuse me from giving a mul
titude of the proofs now by me, but those
printers must permit me to give a few.
First, I must say that the word ending
in ing, in such expressions as the house
is building, Is not a participle, but Is a
gerund, or verbal noun, which was orig
inally governed by the preposition an,
on, or In, a preposition that was after
wards worn down to the form a, and aft
erwards discarded altogether. A few ex
amples will show this:
a. The churehe was in byldinge.—Rob
ert of Brunne (about A. D. 1340.)
b. We have a widow a worckyng.—
Piers Ploughman (A. D. 1393.)
c. As this was a doyng.—Malory’s
Morte d’Arthur (A. D. 1470.)
d. Then they brake all (the bridges) to
peaces that had been long a makynge.—
Berner's Froissart (A. D. 1573.)
e. Whilst these things were a doing.—
Stow, Stirvay of London (A. D. 1598.)
f. It was a doing.—Shakespeare. ».
g. In the dayes of Noah, while the
arke was a-preparing.—I Peter, ill, 20.
(A. D. 1611.)
h. I hope your new book Is printing—
Johnson.
I. He burst out a-laughlng.—Macauley.
Near the beginning of the eighteenth
century the A begins to disappear, and
now appears only occasionally as a col
loquialism. Examples of the use of the
expressions without the A are all through
our literature of today, and none need be
minted here.
The ambiguity of such expressions was
long ago felt by writers and speakers, as
It Is felt today; and hence, about the
close of the last century such expressions
as "being built” was Introduced. One of
the earliest examples of this form is
found In a letter of Robert Southey,
written on the 9th of October. 1795. As
has often been pointed out by writers
upon our language, Coleridge, Lamb,
Lander, Shelly and many other good
writers, gave a welcome to the new form,
which Is so common today,
Fltzedward Hall, the eminent word
gatherer, after citing a host of examples
of the new comer, says: "I need surely
name no more among the dead who found
'is being built,’ or the like, acceptable.”
Mr. Hall then arrays examples from
great living writers. Among these are
the following: m
(a.) The ware which is being made
there.—Matthew Arnold.
(b.) The corpuscles enter into the eggs
while they are being formed.—Professor
Huxley (lately deceased.)
But, Mr. Editor, I can hear you crying
out, not exactly in the unholy language
or spirit of Macbeth, "Hold, enough!” I
have other sentences making, or being
made, but I will forbear, especially as the
International, the Century, the Standard
and the Philological society’s great dic
tionary (now making, or being made,)
fully discuss these usages. The Century
gives consolation to all that have used
these expressions or written In regard to
them when it says:
"In modern use the proposition is omit
ted; as, the house Is building. But none
of these forms of expression has become
thoroughly popular, the popular instinct
being shown in recent development of
the desired ‘progressive passive partici
ple;' as, the house is being built. This
construction, though condemned by
logicians and purists, is well established
In popular speech, and will probably pass
into current literary usage." Has not
the time come to change, in this sen
tence from the Century, "will probably
pass intos” to has passed into? The
new dictionary of the Philological socie
ty certainly so thinks.
Pardon me, Mr. Editor, for this long
note, upon expressions over which the
late Richard Grant White and the acute
ly investigating Fltzedward . Hall furi
ously crossed swords, Perhaps you will
throw this article into your waste
basket and write me, “your communica
tion Is neither printing nor«being print
ed.” Well, If you do, so be it. "1 had
rather be right than be president.”
BENJAMIN F. MEEK.
University of Alabama, Oct. 23, 1895.
THEY MET AFTER THE CONFLICT.
An Incident Which Occurred at Seven Pines Re
lated by Col. John H. Caldwell.
The average southerner never wearies
of the deeds of heroism of the "boys who)
wore the gray.” In the times to come
their deeds of valor will be printed in
book and story, and generations yet un
born will pour over them as we of the
present age do over the deeds of the
Greeks and Romans.
The subject of this story is an unknown
yankee soldier. The name with which
his is connected is that of Col. John H.
Caldwell of'Jacksonville, Ala., as brave a
soldier and as good a man as the sun
ever shone upon. Colonel Caldwell has
thousands of friends throughout Ala
bama, who will read the Incident with
pleasure.
It was at the battle of Seven Pines.
The battle was over and Colonel Cald
well was going over the battle field, gath
ering up the wounded of his regiment
and having them conveyed to the hos
pital. Let him tell it In his own lan
guage, as near as the writer can recall
it. He said:
“I looked over in a deep ravine and
there sat a pale faced yankee soldier. He
could not have been over 16 or 18 years of
age. and loss of blood madp him look as
white as a ghost. His hands were clasped
about his knees and there was a look
of despair on his handsome face that
went straight to my heart. More in a
spirit of encouragement than Anything
else I said:
“ 'Hello, Johnny' what's the matter
with you.’
" 'I am dying,’ was his reply.
"Didn’t you know we would kill you
if you fooled with us?” I continued:
“I know it now, sir,” he said lit that
heart-broken, dispirited way that showed
the poor fellow was weak from the loss
cf blood.
"I went down the embankment where
he was and a great pool of blood had set
tled ahout him from a ball through, the
thigh and a red stream.was trickling
down his neck from a sabre cut across the
head.
"I took out my silk handkerchief, and,
tlelng a knot In it, bound It about the
boy's wounded leg and made him sip
some whisky from my canteen. He bare-*
ly put It to his lips and I had to force
him to drink several swallows, for he
was very weak from iosa of blood.
“I left my canteen with him. aod toW
him to take a sip of the whisky every
now and then and as scan as l got ipy
own men off the field I Would send ba'CK
after him. *
"it was over an hour before I got
through with my task, but when I did
i got the litter-bearer3 together and went
to hun't for my Yankee boy in the ravine.
When I arrived there he was nowhere to
be found.
"Scene second of my story is laid in
Jacksonville, Ala. The war was over
and 1 had been elected solicitor of my
circuit. There were lots of unifjn rnen,
bushwhackers, we called them, add I had
to wear a gun to protect myself when I
went to the county seat of the adjoining
county of St. Clair. That was in recon
struction days, and a man was not al
lowed to go armed without a permit.
"There was a garrison df yankee sol
diers stationed at my town and I went
over and asked the officer In charge for
a permit to wear a pistol, as I was going
over into St. Clair county to attend to
my official duties. He told me to go over*
to the post and the clerk there would is
sue the permit.
"I went and the clerk, a handsome,
manly young fellow, was soon busy
writing out the document, and being a
soldier he and I were soon relating our
experiences. I told the incident relatid
above. He seemed deeply interested, and
as I noted afterwards, a little excited,
but he did not say a word until I had re-t
la ted the whole story, which consumed
some ten or fifteen minutes.
"When I had finished the young fellow
threw his arms around me and drew me
to him as if I had been a long lost father
or brother, and for awhile I did not know
what it meant. He then stepped back and
threw hack his long hair and showed me
the sabre cut on his head and asked me
to place my finger In the wound In -his
leg, which I had bound with my silk
handkerchief to keep his life blood from
oozing away. He told me that I could
not only get a permit, but he was ready to
gcr with me over to St. Clair and pro
tect me with his life’s blood If necessary.
"While I was busy removing my
wounded from the field a squad of yankee
soldiers had crept up the ravine and
carried the young fellow away, and that
is the reason I did not find him on my re
turn after the wounded of the Confeder
ate causa had been properly cared for.
The incident, occurring as it did while
the war was in progress and the happy
sequel after it was over, will never be ef
faced from my memory, and as long as
I live I will never cease to cherish the in
cident as one of the most pleasant that
occurred tn my four years' experience in
defending a cause that I thought then
and think yet was Just and right."
Col. John H. Caldwell Is one of the most
loveable of men. He is as tender as a
woman to a fallen foe, yet has all the fire
and dash of a cavalier when engaged in
subduing that foe. He is growing old
now, hut he has the confidence, love and
respect of all who know him. The writer
sometimes wishes that such men as he
could live on as long as time shall last;
but the life and good deeds of such a
man will live long after he shall have
passed away.
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Chartered January 28, 1886.
Capital Stock, $200,COO.00. Surplus and Profits, $28,000.00.
Successors to City National Bank of Kirminjhan January 8, 1833.
Special Attention to Industrial and Colton Accunots
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science, and lils success with patients Is
wonderful.
(Winona, Miss., Times.)
Dr. Dozier is a specialist of great repu
tatlon and has been unusually successful
In his practice. never undertakes a
case unless reasonably sure of a cure. Hs
is a high-toned gentleman and can be con
sulted with the utmost confidence.
(Atlanta Constitution.)
Dr. O. T. Dozier, the head of the South
ern Medical Dispensary of Birmingham,
Ala., is a specialist of nearly twenty
years’ experience in the treatment of
chronic, nervous and private diseases and
his uniform success has given him a lead
ing position In the medical profession in
that city.
(Sunay Morning Star.)
Dr. Dozier's success has been simply
marvelous and has elicited the most en
thusiastic words of praise and gratitude
fr >m the dispensary's many patrons from
all over the state.
(Eutaw Whig and Observer.)
While In Birmingham recently we had
the pleasure of meeting Dr. Dozier and
found him to be an Interesting and genial
gentleman. He has not only the reputa
tion of being a fine physician, but is a
writer of considerable character.
(The Southern Odd Fellow.)
We cannot add anything to the reputa
tion Dr. O. T. Dozier has already ac
quired In the line of his profession, but
we know him to be a brother Odd Fellow
that can be relied on to carry out every
promise he makes to those needing hla
services.
(Mountain Home, Talladega.)
The press of Birmingham and all over
Alabama apeak In the highest terms of
Dr. Dozier as a physician, surgeon and
gentleman, and we have no hesitancy in
recommending him to those of our pa
trons who need his services.
(Alabama Christian Advocate.)
The Southern Medical Dispensary js
the leading institution of Its kind in Bir
mingham and has been Instrumental in
effectng the cure of many serious oases,
and thus carrying healing and happiness
to many homes. Dr. O. T. Dozier, head
of the Southern Medical Dispensary,
gives his entire time and personal super
vision to the work, and brings to bear a
careful medioal training in the best col
leges of the land and a long and valua
ble experience In the treatment of special
diseases. Mis professional standing is
unimpeachable and his Character as a
gentleman and citizen is above reproach.
(Anniston Hot Blast.)
Among the most noted and successful
specialists in this country are Dr. Dozier
& Co. They have extended their business
from year to year and the patronage
given to them in the several surrounding
states is most gratifying. Dr. Dozier
is a high-toned, polished, Christian gen
tleman and has many warm personal
friends in Anniston who knew him years
ago when practicing in Rome. Ga.
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